And always ABBA! Here they are in bright 1980s colours on a super-sized poster in Bravo of 8 January 1981. ABBA had finished second in the readers’ poll of favourite band of 1980 (the winners featured on Sunday)

ABBA are pictured on a centre-spread poster in Bravo of 11 December 1975

Having had their international breakthrough with S.O.S. in autumn, their new single out was Mamma Mia. In Germany they had already enjoyed a string of hits, including Ring Ring in 1974, which featured on the Should Have Been A UK Top 10 Hit mix.

ABBA are pictured on the cover of Bravo of 11 December 1975. Agnetha’s dress is quite short; I hope she didn’t catch a cold.

In that issue the Bravo Bazaar, in which stars give away gifts for lucky winners, offered among many other things Björn’s star-shaped guitar as used when ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest, a 1969-model Volkswagen bus owned by German singer Maggie Mae, Suzi Quatro’s ten-year-old leather jacket, and a signed shirt from Alice Cooper. Some stuff obviously was acquired by Bravo and ascribed to stars, but some of the personalised stuff… wow!